So You Have a Student With Oppositional Defiant Disorder... Now What?

Top tips to teach difficult and/or oppositional students. Discover strategies to avoid power struggles and foster learning.

As students returned to classrooms this year, some brought the challenges of oppositional defiant disorder with them. You can apply proven tactics to avoid power struggles with students that exhibit challenging behaviors.

Optimal strategies for dealing with tantrums, arguing, manipulation, and apathy about consequences will enable you to help all students learn. Prevention and intervention techniques will diffuse these behaviors in students who have medical diagnoses of ODD or struggle with directions from authority figures.

• What defiant diffuser phrases can you use?
• What de-escalation techniques are effective?
• How can you provide differentiated consequences?
• How should you handle cursing and other forms of provocative language?
• How do you interface with students that hold grudges?
• Can limit testing provide an opportunity to establish compliant behaviors?
• How can you get students to take ownership instead of playing the blame game?

We are offering a multi-part series of specific training sessions with unique strategies that every teacher and administrator in your school can use to help all students here.